How to get battery status?

I'm new to Phone 7 and thought i was going to start with something simple to develop like a battery status indicator. I got stuck right away. In old Windows mobile it was nothing to it but in Windows phone 7 i don't even know what class references to use. Is it even possible? A little help would be nice.

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